The new Government Decree 41, issued this year to replace the 2013 Decree 103, has hiked administrative fines for violations in the aquatic products sector.

Having control over their lives, making independent decisions, and keeping up to date on social and political issues can help ensure women’s rights at work and at home, participants said at the “Women Bettering the World” summit held on Wednesday in HCM City.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged ministries, sectors and localities to be prepared to tackle road safety and traffic jams during the Liberation Day and May Day holidays.

Four garbage trucks that were driven in the BRT lane on Hà Đông District’s Tố Hữu Street on Tuesday have been identified.

Some 136 at-risk babies have received milk over two months from 46 donor mothers from the country’s first human milk bank at the Đà Nẵng Hospital for Women and Children.

A lubricant recycling plant stretching thousands of square metres in Đồng Nai Province was engulfed in flames on Wednesday night, but no casualties were reported.

Following an overall inspection of all karaoke shops, Hà Nội has decided to suspend 126 shops and asked more than 530 others to temporarily close.

Justice authorities of HCM City’s Bình Chánh District on Tuesday delivered a public apology to three men wrongly arrested and jailed for robbery.

Experts have called on the Ministry of Finance to be carefully consider and be transparent on their plan to spend the environmental protection tax applied on gasoline, which they have just proposed to double the current figure recently.